Yes, it took me a while to become an Elaine fan when I first started watching the show, but I appreciate her alot more now. However, to me, and I might get a lot of crap for this, she's still the one I'd miss the least if she wasn't on the show. I do like her character alot more now than I did when I first started watching.
There's only one little part of a scene that still makes me cringe because I find it totally over-done. When she goes to the Andover Shop with Jerry and Craig says he needs Jerry's number on the back of the cheque, then he says to Elaine "and perhaps you can give me your number too"...Her reaction to that as the scene fades out is way too much. She laughs a sort of shy laugh, but it's so over-acted to me and goes on for way too long that it still bothers me every time I see it.